P-amino-benzene-sulphamide derivatives



Patented Sept. 24, 1946 P-AMINO-IBENZENE-SULPHAMIDE DERIVATIVES .Winfrid Hentrich, Rodleben, near 'Dessau-Rosslau, Anhalt, and Erik Schirm,'Dessau, Anhalt,

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Germany; vested in the Alien Property Custo- No Drawing. Application June 3, 1939, Serial No. 277,300. In Germany May 5, 1938 1 It has been found that technically valuable pamino-benzol-sulphimides of the general forare obtainable in causing the reaction of benzolsulpho-halogenides, which in p-position contain a substituent transformable into an amino group, upon alkali-compounds of acid-amides of the general formula R,X- NI-Iz, or alkali-compounds of benzol-sulphamides, which in p-position contain a substituent transformable into an amino group, upon acid-halogenides of the general formula R,X-Hal, and in forming then in the condensation-product the free amino group in a way known in itself.

In the aforementioned general formulas R means any acyclic or cyclic hydrocarbon residue which may also contain hetero-atoms or heteroatom groups such as oxygen, sulphur, nitrogen, halogen, hydroXyl-, sulpho-, ether-, amino-, sub- 6 Claims. (01. zen-397.7)

stituted amino groups such as acylamino-, nitro-,

azo-, azoxy-, ester-, acid-arnide groups and the like; X means the groups S02 or CO, and Hal means a halogen-atom and particularly a chloroatom. By the groups which according to well known methods are easily converted into an amino group and which, in the benzol-sulphohalogenides or benzol-sulphamides respectively, ought to be arranged in p-position to the sulpho-group, we mean acyl-amine groups, the nitro-group, the azo-group, the azoxy-group and the like.

As to the acid-amides of the general formula R-XNH2 or, respectively, acid-halogenides of the general formula R.XHal there are to be considered for the present method e. g. the amides or halogenides respectively of the following acids: acetic acid, butyric acid, lauric acid, stearic acid, methane-, ethane-, ethylene-, dodecane, hexadecane-, sulpho-acid, further the benzoic acid, its homologues and substitutionproducts, the phenyl-acetic acid, the phenoxyacetic acid, the naphthoic acid, the picolic and nicotinic acid, the benzol-sulpho-acid, its homologues and substitution products such as 2,5-dichloro-anilinel-sulpho-acid, the benzyl-sulphoacid, the naphthaline-sulpho-acids etc.

The mixing of those acid-amides or -halogenides respectively with the p-substituted benzolsulpho-chlorides or -amides respectively is performed to well known methods either directly or in th presence of an indifferent diluent such as benzol, toluol, xylol, chloro-benzol, tetra-chloro-hydrocarbon or th like. The subsequent 2 conversion of the groups contained in the molecule, which allow of being conveyed into aminogroups, is also performed to methods known in themselves. The nitro-, azoor azoxy-group respectively is converted into an amino-group by reduction, and the acyl-amino-group by saponification. Y

The sulphimides obtainable according to the present method are excelling by the fact that with alkalis, ammonia and numerous organic bases they givewater-soluble salts, the solutions of which react neutrally, which is of great importance for their being applied-particularly in the pharmaceutical domainas remedies against streptoand staphylo-bacteria infections. It is true that similarly constituted sulphimides could already be produced, whereat the amino-group of the amino-benzol-sulpho-residue was, however, not arranged in para-, but in meta-position. Thosecompounds are of quite a different character and they did not prove efificient as medical remedies andparticularly not against streptoand staphylo-bacteria infections;

Example 1 200 weight parts of, p-nitrobenzol-sulphochloride are dissolved in 1000*volume-parts of toluol. Into this solution 193 weight-parts of p-toluolsulphamide-sodium are brought in the form of a fine powder. Then the mixture is heated at the reflux-cooler While stirring, until the toluol begins to boil and at this temperature the mixture is kept for about 5 hours under permanent stirring. After cooling down the separated reactionproduct is filtered oil, then washed with a little amount of alcohol and dissolved in a solution of 150 weight-parts of calcinated soda in 2500 weight-parts of water while warming. The hot solution is cleared by filtration and the filtrate is cooled in ice. After a several hours standing the sodium salt of the di-sulphimide abundantly precipitating in the form of small crystal flakes turning into a thickish crystal-mass, is sharply sucked off or pressed off, then covered with some ice-water and finally dried in the warmth. We thus obtain 262 weight-parts (=77% of the theory) of p-nitro-p'-methyl-dibenzol-sulphimidesodium. In working-up the mother-lye further amounts of the condensation-product may be gained.

262 weight-parts of this nitro-compound are stirred, within half an hour at to 0., into a solution of 183 weight-parts of crystallized sodium-sulphide (NazS.9H2O) and 25 weightparts of sulphur in 1000 Weight-parts of water.

Then We stir for a further half an hour at 65, whereupon we warm up to 80 in keeping this temperature for one hour. When the reaction is finished an exceeding of sodium-sulphide will still be traceable. The thus obtained solution is then cooled in ice. After a rather long standing in the cold the meanwhile developed crystal mass is filtered 01f. From the filtrate a further amount of reduction-product is separating after an addition of common salt.

For purification the united precipitates are recrystallized from a little amount of water, whereat the eventual yellow aspect can be eliminated by an addition of a little amount of sodium hydrosulphite. The portions left dissolved are precipitated from the mother-lye by common salt. Now the precipitates are dissolved in much water whereupon we acidify with muriatic acid and filter off the white precipitate, which we subsequently dissolve and precipitate from a large amount of boiling Water. After drying the substance obtained forms a white micro-crystalline powder with a flash-point of 231 to 232 C. (noncorrected), which in a sodium-solution, while forming a neutrally reacting sodium salt of the formula is soluble. In the same way salts with organic bases are soluble e. g. salts with tri-ethanolamine.

Example 2 236 Weight-parts of the sodium salt of the pacetamino-benzene-sulphamide are suspended in 1000 volume-parts of xylol; then 133 weightparts of benZoyl-chloride are added, whereupon themixture is heated up at the reflux-cooler for 3 "to 4 hours until the xylol begins to boil. The mixture is filtered after being cooled down, the residue is Washed with a little amount of alcohol and taken in a warm exceeding 5%-sodium carbonate solution. The filtered solution is then boiled until the acetyl group is split off. By acidifying with muriatic acid the obtained N- (p' amino benzene-sulphonyl-)benzamide is precipitated out, filtered in the cold and purified by dissolving and precipitating from diluted alcohol.

Example 3 is obtained.

The sulphonamide derivatives obtained by the prescribed processes having an alkyl sulphon residue in the molecule such as p-amino-benzenemethyl sulphimid, p amino benzene-ethylsulphimid, p amino-benzene-propyl-sulphimid, p-amino-benzene-butyl-sulphimid and the like are especially valuable as they have a very good compatibility with the body.

We claim:

1. Compounds having the general formula wherein R is an aliphatic radical and Z is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkalis, ammonia, and organic basic forming salts in combination with the rest of the molecule.

2. An alkali metal salt of an N -alkylsulphonyl sulphanilamide.

3. An N -alkylsulphonyl sulphanilamide.

4. An N -butylsulphonyl sulphanilamide 5. An N -octylsulphonyl sulphanilamide.

6. An N -methylsulphonyl sulphanilamide.

W'INFRID HENI'RICH. ERIK SCHIRM. 

